by Giulio Prisco

on 05.10.18

MOBI, the recently launched Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative, will explore and develop applications of distributed ledger technology (DLT) for a new digital mobility ecosystem that could make transportation safer, more affordable and more widely accessible. MOBI, backed by major car makers ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 05.07.18

Dentacoin, a foundation based in the Netherlands, is developing distributed ledger technology (DLT) solutions for the dental industry, with the goal of forming a global community of service providers and patients that work together to improve the quality of dental care and make it more ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 05.03.18

Spanish bank BBVA has become the first global bank to issue a loan using distributed ledger technology (DLT), Financial Times reported recently. Founded in 1857, BBVA is one of Spain’s leading banks and a major global financial services group. BBVA is also the biggest financial institution in ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 05.02.18

The blockchain-oriented fintech integrator IntellectEU is launching its Catalyst platform to connect business applications, financial market infrastructures and blockchain networks. According to IntellectEU, Catalyst is the first such platform to integrate with multiple blockchain networks. ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 04.26.18

Batavia, a global trade finance platform based on distributed ledger technology (DLT), which has been jointly developed by a consortium consisting of IBM, Bank of Montreal, CaixaBank, Commerzbank, Erste Group and UBS, “has successfully completed its first live pilot transactions with corporate ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 04.19.18

Nuggets, a distributed ledger technology (DLT) startup focused on payment and identity systems, has been endorsed by the United Kingdom’s Department for International Trade, the Mayor of London and the City of London and invited on two major trade visits to China. “As a blockchain start-up, ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 04.12.18

Fujitsu Global, the Japanese informational technology equipment and services giant, announced that it is developing verification and risk assessment technology for Ethereum-based smart contracts. Using “symbolic execution technology,” Fujitsu researchers have demonstrated the ability to identify ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 04.05.18

There are many authenticated identity systems in use, ranging from official identification systems managed by a government — things like passports and national ID documents — to the informal online identity systems of Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter, which are increasingly used to log in ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 03.22.18

Although the use of blockchain technology in Sierra Leone’s presidential election earlier this month was initially overblown, the vote did utilize distributed ledger technology in a pilot test for use in a national government vote. According to a statement from the Swiss-based blockchain ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 03.15.18

The Swedish government agency Lantmäteriet — the national mapping, cadastral and land registration authority — “is likely to become one of the first government agencies to test using blockchain technology for conducting property sales,” The Wall Street Journal reported. The agency has partnered ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 03.01.18

New research from the global fund transaction network operator Calastone forecasts that more than $2.6 billion worth of potential cost savings for the global mutual funds market could be achieved by moving to a blockchain-enabled distributed market infrastructure. The Calastone press release ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 02.22.18

Silicon Valley–based SyncFab is on a mission to foster smart reshoring: bringing manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. through decentralized, digitally inspired “smart” manufacturing empowered with blockchain technology. The vision of SyncFab is that of a domestic network of high-tech ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 02.15.18

In “Re-Engineering Clinical Trials: Best Practices for Streamlining the Development Process,” a 2014 book edited by Peter Schueler and Brendan Buckley, experts describe how the pharmaceutical industry is currently operating under a business model that is not sustainable for the future. As a ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 02.01.18

With distributed ledgers emerging as technological solutions across a wide range of sectors, it’s no surprise that NASA is now considering the applications of blockchain technology.A NASA presentation titled “Bitcoin, Blockchains and Efficient Distributed Spacecraft Mission Control,” noted that ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 01.25.18

IBM and the integrated transport and logistics company Maersk, a global leader in container shipping, intend to establish a joint venture to provide efficient and secure solutions for conducting global trade using distributed ledger technology (DLT). The two companies plan to develop a global ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 01.18.18

On January 9, 2018, Kodak and WENN Digital, in a licensing partnership, announced the launch of the KODAKOne image rights management platform and KODAKCoin, a photo-centric cryptocurrency that will empower photographers and agencies to take greater control in image rights management. The ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 01.04.18

Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is on its way to radically changing established industries, disrupting traditional business models, bringing old leaders down and bringing new leaders up. The publishing industry is one of many that seem ripe for DLT-enabled change, and the new, DLT-oriented ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 12.28.17

Among the items highlighted in accounting and professional services giant Deloitte’s “Tech Trends 2018” report were new business opportunities and creative ways of solving problems with emerging technologies, including machine learning, the Internet of Things (IoT), digital reality and, of ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 12.21.17

One year ago, Bitcoin Magazine reported that Walmart was testing the use of distributed ledger technology (DLT) for supply chain management in the food industry, with the goal of tracking and tracing pork in China and produce in the U.S. — two high-volume product categories within the world’s ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 11.30.17

In September, Zilliqa, a project to develop next-generation, high-throughput distributed ledger technology (DLT), announced that a testnet of 2,400 nodes had achieved 1,389 transactions per second, a preliminary result that the project believes it can improve upon. In fact, a following post ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 11.20.17

On October 20, 2017, Mastercard announced that developers would be able to access its blockchain technology platform via its Mastercard blockchain API published on Mastercard Developers. The new service was launched during the Money20/20 Hackathon in Las Vegas after testing and validation had ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 11.16.17

In Watson Health’s panel discussion at the Fast Company Innovation Festival in New York, IBM’s Chief Science Officer Shahram Ebadollahi announced that IBM Watson Health has signed an agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to explore the benefits of blockchain and ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 11.09.17

A new Deloitte report titled “Six Control Principles for Financial Services Blockchains” covers six control principles essential for blockchain adoption on a global scale. The report has been produced by the Deloitte EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Blockchain Lab in Dublin, in association ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 10.26.17

The Distributed Ledger newsletter is almost two years old and this edition marks issue number 100. In issue one, published on November 20, 2015, I offered simple, high-level, introductory answers to the question “What is the blockchain?” Nearly two years later, I’ll highlight some recent news ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 10.11.17

In academic and scientific research, current authorship and crediting systems are widely considered insufficient and even nonsensical. “We have the tools and volition to broadly collaborate and share information, but the formation in collaboration is hindered because the credit system does not ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 10.09.17

Last month, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon told an investor conference in New York that Bitcoin “won’t end well,” because “it’s a fraud” and “worse than tulip bulbs,” Bloomberg reported. Dimon said he would fire any employee trading bitcoin for being “stupid.” JPMorgan being one of the world’s ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 10.03.17

For the last several years a major topic in technology has been about how to harness the exponentially greater amount of data we have access to thanks to the internet. One consistently discussed concept linking health, business, and technology is finding a way to capture biometric data and ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 09.28.17

Change Bank is a global cryptobank offering a wide range of financial services including investment opportunities on a global marketplace, support for cryptocurrencies, insurance and more.Change Bank is headquartered in Singapore, a global financial and innovation hub, and its partner companies ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 09.21.17

One of distributed ledger technology’s most promising attributes, the power to enable smart contracts, has applications that reach far and wide. As blockchain technology becomes more widely adopted, many of these applications are coming to fruition.A 2016 Forbes story titled “Smart Contracts May ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 08.31.17

Distributed focuses on how legacy industries and sectors can, or should, adopt blockchain technology. Government is most certainly a legacy sector, and one that is not often considered as an early adopter of disruptive technologies. Yet, governments all over the planet have expressed interest in ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 08.24.17

“The core of the sharing economy is people renting things from each other,” reads a 2013 reference article published in The Economist. “[Airbnb] is the most prominent example of a huge new ‘sharing economy,’ in which people rent beds, cars, boats and other assets directly from each other, ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 08.10.17

As Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) continue to serve as go-to fundraisers for companies in the blockchain and cryptocurrency spaces, the regulations governing them become increasingly imperative.“The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an investigative report today cautioning ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 08.10.17

Lipscomb University, based in Nashville, Tennessee, has formed a partnership with Hashed Health, a healthcare innovation company focused on blockchain technology. The partnership, as reported by the Tennessean (USA Today network) in June, will explore potential uses for distributed ledgers in ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 04.01.17

Customer loyalty and engagement can make or break companies, warns a report from the Deloitte Center for Financial Services on blockchain-based solutions for customer loyalty. That makes rewards programs a strategic investment for all types of organizations.Deloitte, the second-largest ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 02.09.17

Two major players in the global insurance industry, Generali Group and Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), have announced that they are joining the Blockchain Insurance Industry Initiative B3i to further explore the potential use of distributed ledger technology for the insurance and health ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 02.02.17

The Hyperledger Project, a collaborative cross-industry effort led by The Linux Foundation to create an enterprise-grade, open-source distributed ledger technology, announced that American Express has joined the project as a Premier Member. The global financial services giant joins more than 100 ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 01.12.17

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) announced that it has selected IBM, in partnership with Axoni and R3, to provide a distributed ledger technology framework for post-trade derivatives processing, including credit default swaps. The final goal of the project is to develop a ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 12.29.16

In June Bitcoin Magazine reported that R3, the financial innovation consortium that includes many of the world’s leading banks, commissioned Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin to write a report on Ethereum design, upcoming technical developments and applications in private systems. R3 published ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 12.08.16

The Wall Street Journal posted a story on December 7, 2017 titled “Bitcoin Powerhouse Will Pull the Plug on Bitcoin.” In fact, “bitcoin bank” Circle Internet Financial announced that, among other developments, it will no longer offer customers the ability to buy and sell bitcoins."Using bitcoin ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 12.01.16

Uber and Airbnb, the hugely popular marketplaces for taxi-like car rides and hotel-like short-term rentals, are usually considered to be successful case stories for the emerging “sharing economy.” Another buzz phrase, “people as a services,” describes the business models of these two companies, ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 11.17.16

This week, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) launched Vulcan Digital Asset Services, a new blockchain-based platform designed for all sorts of digital transactions. The platform has an emphasis on identity verification and compliance services that, PwC hopes, should make it attractive to banks and ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 10.27.16

On October 21, 2016, Visa announced a new partnership with blockchain enterprise company Chain that will develop “a simple, fast and secure way to process B2B payments globally.” Dubbed Visa B2B Connect, the system will offer participating pilot financial institutions a consistent process for ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 10.20.16

Symbiont announced the release of a software development kit for Assembly, the permissioned distributed ledger component of Symbiont's Smart Securities Platform—a bespoke blockchain independent of Bitcoin and Ethereum. According to the company, Assembly is a distributed ledger designed for use ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 10.13.16

The Hyperledger Project, a collaborative cross-industry effort to advance blockchain technology led by The Linux Foundation, continues to announce new organizations joining the project to help create an open standard for distributed ledgers for a new generation of transactional applications. The ...

by Giulio Prisco

on 09.29.16

A new research white paper, How Blockchain Technology Can Enhance EHR Operability, jointly published by Ark Invest and Gem, makes a thoughtful case for the need to modernize the way electronic patient health records, called EHRs, are accessed and handled across the healthcare industry. According ...